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Ted Allen

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information."

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"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information."

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Asa Don Brown

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."

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Asa Don Brown

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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Asa Don Brown

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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Asa Don Brown

"No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."

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Asa Don Brown

"A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow."

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Asa Don Brown

"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."

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Ted Allen
"Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party."

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Ted Allen
"You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame."

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Ted Allen
"I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it."

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Ted Allen
"My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things."

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Ted Allen
"I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world."

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Ted Allen
"Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period."

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Ted Allen
"I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special."

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Ted Allen
"I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations."

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Ted Allen
"It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef."

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Ted Allen
"I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!"

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